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Lena h. Coms is a multidisciplinary neo-symbolist artist. His painting resembles a frozen theatre, which a serial process tends to make mobile, like an accumulation of freeze frames that seem to come to life from one moment to the next. His series are accompanied by variations in texts, sculpture, textiles, even video. This serial process questions our relationship to society, to the individual, to their otherness and to their mythical and founding imaginations.

She discovered art and theater in high school. Eligible for the Beaux-Arts de Caen, she studied Classical Literature and then Performing Arts at the University of Caen while taking evening classes and staging her first plays. Passionate about symbolism, his doctoral research focuses on the puppet practice of the Nabis:The Puppet Theater, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.

Active in several art and cultural associations, she gives conferences and artistic workshops. She creates her theater company,Naos, in 2022.

Conferences

"Embellishments, Deformations and Monstrosities in Art"

Inter-Age University of Bayeux, 2022-2023

"The couple in art", Inter-Age University, Bayeux, 2021-2022

Nanouk of the North at the Café des images, Hérouville Saint-Clair

(film school), 2016

Participation in university conferences (Paris, Hamburg, Glasgow, Charleville-Mézières) on 19th century theatre, women in the arts, puppet theatre, Nabis and Alfred Jarry (2013-2017)

Workshops /
Workshops

Embroidery workshop, 17B Venoix Caen, 2022-2023

Knitting and crochet workshop, 17B Venoix Caen, 2022-2023

Knitting and crochet workshop, 17B Venoix Caen, 2017-2022

The Forest of Metamorphoses, workshop with the collective of photographers IMAJEU during the Chants d'Elles festival, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, 2021

Teaching /
Education

Philosophy of art and architecture, Aden training, Archi/Design preparation, Caen, 2021-202

General culture, Aden training, Archi/Design preparation, Caen, 2021-2022

The history of art, Aden training, Archi/Design preparation, Caen, 2020-2021

Workshop Book/Edition, Aden training, Archi/Design preparation, Caen, 2020-2021

critical analysis and archival research (performing arts), University of Caen-Normandy, 2016-2018

Private lessons (drawing, painting, writing, theatre, plural arts, general culture), 2016-2022

Training

Workshops and associative life /
Workshops and community life

Creation of shows: for actors or puppets, object theater – staging and writing; writing of plays for actors or puppets, 2008-2022

Participation in numerous workshops (2008-2022): theater and dance, Creation of inhabitants at the CCN de Caen - 2018 (with Mickaël Phelippeau)

President of the associationNaos(2022- )

 

Member of the office of the artistic association "Metamorphoses"

(2018-2022)

Vice-secretary of the Association of Friends of the Theater of Caen

(2009-2011)

 

President of the Neo-Symbolist Collective association

(2010-2011)

 

 Volunteer at the Charleville International Puppet Festival

(2013-2017)

Doctorate, Preparation ofthesis on the puppet theater of Nabis artists and anarchist reviews, 2013-2019

Master 1 and 2 Performing Arts– Theater, Archives speciality, thesis on "the Theater of the Puppet, the engaged theater of the Nabis'", 2011-2013

Performing arts license– Theater, University of Caen, 2008-2012

License 1 Classics Letters– evening classes at the Beaux-Arts de Caen/ESAM (illustration, nude modelling), 2007-2008

General baccalaureate Series L, major Plastic Arts option, Latin and Greek options, Alençon, 2004-2007

Modeling/casting course, nude drawing, design at the Center d'Art Contemporain, Alençon, 2004-2007

Art residences

Performances

Sur le ring, Les trois Parques, Bernay, 2023

Les Trois Glaucé, Les femmes dans les mythes de la création, Association Métamorphoses, Saint-Pierre-sur-Dive, 2022

Les Trois Glaucé, Les femmes dans les mythes de la création, Association Métamorphoses, Thaon, 2021

Residence at Labo des Arts (14000 Caen) since March 2021

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